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Samsung Is Going To Include An Ai Assistant In Its Next Phone

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You’ve watched your friends do it. You’ve done it. You hold down the shutter button on your iPhone to take one picture and suddenly a counter displays, increasing at a seemingly exponential pace. Don’t panic! You haven’t broken your camera app, you’ve just entered “Burst Mode.” And it’s one of the best ways to get perfect pictures with your iPhone.

For nature scenes, action shots, sports photography, and pretty much anything involving kids and pets, Burst Mode is your best friend. It keeps taking pictures at a rate of 10 frames per second until you release the shutter button. Then it packages all of those pictures together so that you can select the best ones out of the bunch.

In the Photos app, select Albums, then scroll to Bursts. If youre like me, you’ll be surprised at the amount of burst collections in the album (hint, if you’re running low on iCloud storage or room on your iPhone, this is a great place to start trimming).

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Choose a burst collection to work with by scrolling to it and clicking Select.

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Here’s where a little bit of that magic comes in. You see that grey dot underneath the thumbnail picture for the collection? That’s there because the Photo app’s algorithms have determined that’s the best picture in the bunch. This will be the photo where people’s eyes aren’t closed or the subjects aren’t blurry or the picture was clearer than the others. It’s kinda awesome.